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RUSSIANS PRESSING TOWARD BAGDAD GERMANY HAS HURRIEDLY DISPATCHED DIS-PATCHED FORCE TO TRY TO STEM RUSSIAN ADVANCE. Advance Has Been Swift and Over Easy Road to Ancient Nineveh. Artillery Duel in France , Continues. London. The Russian official statement, state-ment, announcing that the advance on Mosul continue;, probably veils im-portat im-portat news. The Russian communications communi-cations are generally a day or two late in announcing the actual attainments, attain-ments, and it is considered not unlikely un-likely that the Bagdad railway, which runs along the left bank or the Tigris and has been for a couple of days within cavalry ride of the Russian advance, ad-vance, is already cut. The Russian advance in this direction direc-tion has been swift and silent toward an easy road which leads to Mosul or ancient Nineveh, where the German Bagdad railway joins the Tigris. Germany has hurriedly dispatched forces, it is believed, to the Turkish center at Erzinang, to try to stem the Russian advance, but apparently these efforts have come too late. To the northwest around Diarbekh the Turks attempted an attack on the Russians, but were repulsed. The Germans in the lake region between be-tween Dvinsk and Vilna attacked and occupied advanced Russian trenches near Lake Dolje. The Russians, however, how-ever, in a counter-attack expelled the invaders and drove them back to their former positions. In the lower Slripa region of Galicia the Teutons launched an attack against the Russian trenches, but were repulsed. On the greater portion of the line in Belgium and France the artillery of both the Germans and entente allies al-lies continues active, being especially vigorous in Belgium in the regions o Dixmude and St. Georges and in France around the Avocourt wood, hill 304 and Le Mort Homme, northwest of Verdun. The Germans have directed direct-ed another infantry attack against the FVench positions west of hill 304, for the possetssion of which there has been much sanguinary fighting, but the maneuver was again checked by the French curtain of fire. The Austrians in the region south and southeast of Trent in southern Tyrol are reported by Vienna to have captured Italian trenches at several points, taken prisoner 2,565 men, among them sixty-five officers, and captured seven gums and eleven machine ma-chine guns. The entry of Austrians into Italian trenches east of Monfal-cone, Monfal-cone, near the head of the gulf of Triest, and the capture here of additional addi-tional officers and men also is recorded record-ed by Vienna,